Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nchez withdrew to greet several thousand of his own partisans at La Fortaleza and to ponder running as an independent. His candidacy would drain off many votes that normally would go to the P.D.P. nominee. Barring a three-way race, Negrón is slightly favored to defeat New Progressive Party Candidate Luis Ferré, a fervent advocate of statehood and the only other significant candidate. If the Popular Democratic Party should indeed splinter, the era of Muñoz and of steady commonwealth status may be ended...
...easing of the gold drain can be partially attributed to the success of the four-month-old "two-tier" price system. Under that arrangement, the U.S. now sells bullion at the official $35-per-ounce price only to foreign central banks, thus forcing private speculators to purchase gold on the open market. Gold fever has also been dampened by the fact that France is no longer in a position to cash in dollars for U.S. gold. On the contrary, a good part of the gold that has flowed into the U.S. comes from France, which has been forced...
...Down the Drain. Although artificial kidneys now come in a variety of shapes and sizes as well as prices, all of them work on the same basic principle of dialysis, or "separating through." The patient's blood, loaded with body wastes that his own diseased kidneys cannot remove, is piped from an artery into a coil or container made of permeable cellulose. This is immersed in a swirling bath, containing bloodlike salts and acids, known as dialysate. The blood's impurities (but not the blood cells or vital proteins) pass into the bath through minute porosities in the cellulose...
...course, athletics could not remain the same, under tensions of the war-time economy and the brawn drain. In March Harvard announced that all inter-collegiate sports would end after the baseball season; the intra-mural program would be developed more extensively to take their place...
...night, and displeased with what they perceive. Their bodies seem suddenly, unaccustomedly weak and unworthy. They ache and protest with each shift on the damp sheets. The stitches pull; one is certain that all the vital sap must be flowing from the wounds the doctors have left open to drain. Each man knows that he has not slept a moment, and he quietly hates the men next to him who seem to be sleeping so soundly...